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Konstantin Podprugin is a Russian-American actor based in Los Angeles who has established a notable presence in major television series and independent film. He gained significant international visibility for his role in the fourth season of the Netflix hit Stranger Things (2022), where he portrayed an inmate in a Russian high-security prison. His television credits also include a recurring role as Val in the final season of the acclaimed HBO series Barry (2023), as well as appearances in the HBO miniseries The Invisible Pilot and the procedural drama 9-1-1. Standing at 6'0" (183 cm), Podprugin is a bilingual performer fluent in both Russian and English, often utilizing these skills in high-stakes dramatic roles.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
